Eye of Horus (wedjat) amulet

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This Eye of Horus (wedjat) amulet has incised details on the front, the back is flat and plain. The projection on the top is not pierced for suspension. Slightly-polished, black-and-white, mottled stone.

Provenance

By 1836: Robert Hay Collection, Linplum, Scotland; 1863: to his son, Robert James Alexander Hay; 1868-1872: Way Collection, Boston (purchased by Samuel A. Way through London dealers Rollin and Feuardent, 27 Haymarket); 1872: given to the MFA by Samuel's son, C. Granville Way.